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" V :YOL. -36—No. 28
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DEMOCRACY
EDITOR’S NOTE—The Collegian, in its open letter to Mr. Dies
; ~ l > last week, has been accused by so,me critics as being vague and
i, general in itsidenunclatlon ,We submit the following as facts, facts
-Vwhlch advocates'of Mr Dies must disprove if they still are con
, _ l vinced that this group is qualified and has a right to investigate col*
, leges and universities throughout the country for un American ac*
tiylties. We submit them, too,{as evidence to support the conten*
vV^tionjthat the Dies Committee has not justified its further existence,
'/L than it has 'done 'more harm than good to the cause of democracy.
Ji ' '
-ofi:
;Most of the witnesses "who have appeared before the
.Committee have accused themselves of having lied and
in the-past. The truth of their statements
f could be established only by extensive investigation
jjV.'Such investigations have not been made
ly, 2.;lndividuals and organizations are, through mere men
■lyr . tion and appearance at Committee hearings, libeled on
■ 'the iront page of every newspaper in the United States.
i.'J’he victims must themselves discredit the falsehoods.
■y?d. 'Further.smearing of innocent names: publication by the
'Cdmmittce:of the mailing list of the American League
vyjj-. for Peace and Democracy, a liberal and anti-Fascist or
||fc'gariization-charged ;with being a “Communist front.”
ffk “(lutstanding men and women-throughout the country,
unjustlv accused by the’implication that all on the mail-'
i.rig'list arc Communists. ’
.^f.'.'Statement" recently made by the President'of the Com
irgy-monwealtlfand.Southern Corporation, a conservative'
/ usiness"man,j .Wendell WiHkie :-.‘,‘The Dies;, Committee
y^&imvbeenJdestroyingh'eputationsbyvpdblicityKby'inferr'' -
ence, by; innuendo.” '
- ! £6. The' Dies.Comlmittee is dominated with political motives.
-'f - ‘ It has enteied close state arid national elections in Mich
,«' iga'n, Minnesota and Caiifoi ilia In November, 1938, the
- mittee,. on the eye of Michigan ‘ elections, called and
sZS' heard a number of witnesses on alleged Communistic
activities ■in the State and alleged Communistic con
, ' ectlollb °f Governor Muiphyr now Attorney-General
k -£■of the United States
'.Said Piesident Roosevelt- “On the thieshold of a
, ' (Continued On Page Two)
$1 Council Plans Better
Student, Faculty Ties
By WILLIAM E. FOWLER
y,, ® ul * Council lias two primary objectives, to get freshmen and
Mpliomores better acquainted with upperclassmen through social cv
,<3lt3, and to promote closer relationships between faculty and students ”
.Jy vThus Charles E; Thompson ’4O, president of the Mineral Industries
School Council, sums up the group’s purposes
Eion Skin Drive
fs‘bver/The Top’
f|ifii',sss Surplus
Skin purelmsed for tlie
College', this Fall, lias fc beoit fully
paid for by alumni, fraternity and
Individual donations,-, and a sur
plus of $55 47' r bas_ been, deposited
torltb-Studenl Union ln a mainten
ance fund’ ' -
'/>Thp' akin .itaelfls now baclf in
York City undergoing altera
tions after*, amappearance here at
the Pltt-Penn Statefootball game
/toward the skin
totaled J 259 89 with $162 25 of this
amount reraised on~ Alumni - Day
FrSterhity / andindividual dona
tlons/made.up’tlie $97 64 balance
deucted from this
amount-ywereV, Sklu/ $2OO, tele
g*ama/?s2.7o^and r express charges,
xrfyt&r* - 1 1;> — c :
v-’v '
To Hold Dance
p'AWcommuuity dance
sponsored/' by "the State ' College
ftfed ’bO'held at the Nit-
9,p .m to 1
Tuesday,' December 26. / Rex Rock
weirs/Band:will furnish the music
for^/this’informal; dance’’; Tickets
are f sl£per! couple.v ;
Heads, University
-,L /19 has
Sill
iiflii'|Universlty//Dumaquete, Phil-
Ip|ftAeylBlandB>l‘He\waB( formerly
dtfector'pf ytlie/ Rural/Institute/ of
bfa’wlo'(University,'Esluan/ China "
Editorial
Formulation of plans for a Mmi
ural Industries All-College, dance
and open house have featured the
activities of the Council to date
The dance is aimed not only to
encouarge social relationships but
to provide much-needed funds for
the organization. . ,
The Mineral Industnes open
house is’to be held as soon as in
stallation of equipment will per
mit use of the new MI building.
The Council has joined with
other groups in pushing the move
ment for an interviewing course,
and has secured the cooperation of
Dean Edward M. Stcidle in plan
ning the course'
, Second of the school councils to
be organized under the new set-up,
tho 25 members of the Mineral In
dustries group weie chosen last
May. To the eight seniors,' seven
juniors, and seven sophomores now
on the Council will be added thiee
freshmen m the near future.
Members of the organization
are chosen from each curriculum
according to a "system of propor
ational representation, with two
representatives from the larger
curricula and one from the smaller
in each class The Council adopted
a constitution October 21.
Besides Thompson, who is presi
dent and All-College Cabinet rep
lesentative, the officers of the
Council include Louis Cavalier ’4l,
chairman; Charles' 0 Tarr *42,
vice-president; and Thomas S.
Luerssen ’4O, secretary-treasurer.
. . s ’Ex-officio' members listed are
Dean Steidle- and departmental
heads. Regular meetings are held
once a month, with special sessions
called at intervals.
Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1939
First Semester
Exams Scheduled
Classes foi the fust semestei will end at 5 pm, January 24 ami
examinations will end at 10 a m Febiuary 1 Scheduling officer Ray V'
Watkins announced yesterday. Grades for graduating seniors are due
at the Registrars office at 8 a m January 29.
! For thpse seniors who have examinations scheduled after Saturday,
January 27, special examinations will be arranged by instructors con
cerned unless provisions can be made for them m 'conflict examinations
Seniors graduating at mid-year who ha\e examinations scheduled afteL
January 27 should repoit this fact on conflict cards
Any student having two exami
nations scheduled' the ; same time
is required to report the fact In
person at the office of'the Regis-
Irar, not laler‘than,s p m ’January
S Anj .person^having* three ex
aminations on'the same daj may
leport a conflict Notices of ad-j
jtislmenl \\llJ bo available to those ]
students Mho reported conflicts
and will bo mulled to heads of de
lartments on Monday, January IS
Conflict cards must be presented
to the Instructor in charge at the
time of the conflict examination
since these cards are specials per
mits to take such examination No
student will be admitted to a con
flict examination without a< card
from the College Scheduling Offi
cer
The time for those courses listed
"B> 'AppointmentvNshould' ,not s be
arranged until Monday,'January*ls,
when notices of conflict adjust
ments are available The dates of
these special examination? will he
announced by instructors con
cerned - -
bedroom Llstfl
means r that’_definltc w '~assignmentB
will be announced latei by the de-
I partment
The examination will he of two
hour duration beginning at 8, 10 20
and 2 o’clock '
The schedule
ABCli 1 Jan 25—$ 105 WH*\ ' ‘
ABCIi 208 Jan 29—2 200 Eng D '
ABCh 413 Jau 27—2 20C Ag
(Continued On Page Two)
7200 Studentsn
Register Here
This Semester
Liberal Arts School Leads
College In Enrollment
Seventy-two hundred students,
the laigest number in the history
of the College, are enrolled on the
campus and its undergraduate
centers for the cunent’year, Will
iam S. Hoffman, College Registrar,
revealed yesterday >
Women on the campus arc out
numbered three to one by the men,
5457 to 1743
The Liberal Arts School heads
the list of school enrollments with
a total of 1490 men and 'women
compared to the Schools of Agri
culture ' with 1316, Engineering
1033, *” Education 838, Chemistry
-anA'Physics- 644,~ v Mineral r Tndus-~
tries 306, and Physical Educaton
178
'Only one coed is enrolled in Mm
eial Industries, while the largest
number, 663, are entered in the
School of Education The greatest
number of men are registered m
Agriculture. 1275, and tlio lowest
number m Physical Education, 98
Every county in the state is rep
ie«ented, the laigest delegations
coming from Centre, Allegheny
and Philadelphia counties, with
Foicst county having the smallest
number.
Players Cast
Chinese Drama
Klugei, Segal, Coleman To
Star In ‘Circle Of Chalk'
Oohlng deep Into the,realm of
myateiy and hitiiguo of Uth cen
tury China for tlreif first produc
tion of 1910, the Penn State Play
eis released yesterday the cast for
Tlie Chcle of Chalk,'* to be pre
sented on Junuary 19 and 20 ia
Schwab Auditorium
The pioductlon, dheeled by
James Doll, instructor In dramati
cs, deals with the story of a Chin
ese girl Mho, although somewbut
degi uded, came from a f&mltf
which bad gieat piestige She en
counters many difficulties in mar
jied life, and puts up a continuous
fight to oveicome them
Ch’ang Hat-Tang, the Chhieso
girl, is played by Thelma R Klu
ger *4l. David Segal is cast as*
Ma Chun Sliiug, Hal Tang’s hus
band Catherine E Coleman '42,
plays the part of .Hal Tang’s moth
er, Mrs. Chang
Mrs.* Chang’s soil is Ch’ang-Liu,
played by Eugene C Sclieftel
Floience Marquardt '4O is cast as
Madame Mn, Ma
first wife <
’ Herbert' Doioskow' ’4O piajs the
role of Cb’ao, clerk of the court,
and Madame Ma’s lover
. ,The mighty governor of the
court of Ch’ing Ch’iu Is, Su Shun,
played by Malcolm Weinstein '4l
Leon Rabiuowitz *43 and Bernard
F. Siegel '4l are cast as police of
ficers, T'and Sbao and Ksleh Ua
George, E Berry '4O aud Leo
nard J Wissow *42 are cast as I
neighbors of Ma Chun Siting
Ruth J. Plessett '42 and Dorothy
H. Scbulman '42, will play tlie
roles of Mrs Liu Su Shin and* Mrs,
Chang, midwives
Charles S Burllngham 1 42, car
ries out the part of a wine seller.
The governor and supreme judge
of the C9urt of Kai Fang Fu, Pao
Ch'ing, will be played by Norman
A Shaudman '43. .
Friends’ Committee
Asks Student Aid
To help clothe destitute Poles,
a movement has been started on
campus to col’ect old clothes fiotu
students for the Friends’ Service
Committee which is doing relief
woik in Poland
The iocul group iu charge of col
lections includes Carle M Davis
*4l, Ruth H. Penniugton ’43, R D
Anthony,
Di John H.‘Ferguson,,, professor
of political science, and the WSGA
House of Representatives
Tlie committee, besides working
in Poland aud other European war
/ones, muiutuins centers for Penn
sylvania coal miners. Southern
share croppers, and Chinese refu
gees
NYA To Pay After Holidays
NTA checks for the pay period
ending December 10, will not be
available until after the Christmas
holidays, according to Stanley B
Mhddox, director of NTA.
A CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL
The Christmas Spirit is upon us, in us, all
around us. It will not be denied It shouts bla
tantly from commercial advertisements; it sings
softly from mdio speakers; it luughs joyously
‘Under evergreen trees and fashes in colored lights
- in every town throughout the nation/ ’ N
, It walks reverently into the churches, hastens
happily dark little streets with Baskets for
the needy, crowds • into huge department stores
and spends money lavishly.
“A Merry Christmas,” it shouts. And echoes
and re-echocs shout “A Merry Christmas” in un-
swei as they gradually fade into silence, yet still
ring in one’s ears.
The Christmas'Spirit is everywhere. It crawls
through crevices stuffed with rags.to keep out the
cold in slums and .tenement areas; it .edges its
way through keyholes and padlocks in the exclu
sive residential sections.
. Hard- heart, soft heart,, indifferent heart—they
all succumb to the wiles of a busy-body Christ-'
mas Spirit, and as was even Scrooge ,m Dickens’
immortal “Christmas • Carol,” are made the better
for it. ■ \
Lovable, laughable Christmas Spirit. Gay, hap
py, carefree Christmas Spirit." Spirit thafmakes
2 Chemists
Synthesize
Secretions
T
Rohrmann
3 Hormones
|From Sarsaparilla
-tTuo College reseurdi cliemlete
Wjgro today marked for interna
tlpnal iccognition for-theli discov
ery of u new Vnuthod of synthetic*
alij producing»three of the most
Important secretions of the human
body
Russell E Mai Iter and
Dr Euald Rohrmann, or the oi
ganic chornlstry laboratories oi the
School of Chemistry and Phjsles,
airnounced yesterdaj a method of
synthesizing three hormones (tes
tcteteione, progesterone, and dos
o£pcorticostci one) and pregnane
diol, which occurs in pregnancy
urines as a reduction product of
progesterone
r |Cuiloubly enouglu the source ma
terial for tlia synthetic hormones
preparation is derived ftom the
l&wly sarsaparilla root found In
Mexico, which has been known to
man for at least '4OO years, but
long, since outlawed by modern
medicine as being of no practical
vdlue even In tlie tieatment of
minor ailments ” 5
-importance-' of - the
new v discovery! according to Pro
fessor Marker, is the lower cost
and the consequently greater use
of the'hormones that will result
through the utilization of'the now
method fieietoforo clashed as
(are the price of pro
dudug the hormones will now be
lowered so much that they can be
classed as ordinary organic com
pounds availublc in quantity at
low prices, he added'
Piofessor Marker lias already
earned himself an international re
putation cm tlie basis of his re
search into the mule and femalo
sex hormones
Special Buses, Trains
Will Run Tomorrow
iWhen leading for’Christmas va
cation students 'can’’ 'take.advant
age of speciul'trarisportatton offer
ed by the Greyhound Lines and by
the 1 Pennsylvania ‘Railroad 1
Speciul bus transportation will
be provided, with direct go
ing, to the principal cities of the
state The buses will leave from
tlie parking lot in the reur of ilie
Chemistry Building at 12 45 p m
tomorrow
Trains will Jeuve State College
via the Bcllefonte Central at 12 1(1
p m tomorrow for Allonna, Cres
son. Johnstown, Latrobe, Greens
burg, Pittsbuigb, and points west.
At BeUeforde connections will be
available for eastbound tiaveleis
By HERBERT NIPSON
smiles where there were no smiles before, Spirit
that makes this cold, indifferent world u bettei
place to live in—it is too bad that your life i>> so
shot L
It is terrible 1 tliat after a few short weeks you
shall find doors closed agumst you and cold heuits
remaining cold even though you tiy your best to
warm them It is'too bad that the poor will be
nftgiected, that smiles will drop from faces, that
envy, greed, and jealousy will take your place m
heurts wheie you have leigned for such a short
while.
Couldn’t you, some way, even by bribery or
trickery, make airangements to stay after the ev-
ergreen and colored lights have come down?
Couldn’t you lease the hearts you are now living
in for the rest of the year? Couldn’t you make it
an airtight lease so that no one could break it
and happiness and fellowship would be perman-
ent instead of so fleeting?
Do your best, Christmas spirit, by fair means
or foul, to make this a better world.
And you, you who are reading this, won’t you
also do your best and give the Christmas Spirit
a home after the tinsel and gay lights have been
packed m their boxes? ,
Hopes Grow Dim For Opening
New Buildings Next Term As
GSA Lags With Equipment
NEXT ISSUE
of the Collegian will be pub
lished
January 9/1940
Watch for details of the Col
legian’s faculty poll in the first
issue of the New Year
4 Greed’ Earns
2nd Showing
Film Will Be Shown
By Pi Gamma Alpha
“Gieed*’ is goiug to get anothei
chance
When It first showed in State
College 15 years ago, theatre goers
weie so stiicken by its terrible
lealism that it wasn’t allowed to
stay foi its scheduled second night.
The box-ofilce of the Twenties
couldn’t stomach ( Director Eric
von Stroheim’s “masterpiece of,
leallsui*' in which die-took Frank
“McjTeaguo,” to_£he
scieeu to show the dehumanizing
influence of money
When “Gieed” gels its second
chance hete, the wot Id will have
moved from the Thrifty Thirties
iuto tlie Unknown Forties, witli
tlio showing scheduled admission
fiec iu Schwab Auditoiium at 8 30
p m on January 10 as the second
of tin ee free movies sponsored by
Pi Gumma Alpha, honoiuiy fine
arts fiaternities
A silent pictuic, “Greed” never
theless lived up to Us director’s
desiie “to tell a great story in mo
tion pictutcs in such a way that
Uie spectator will come to be
lieve titat what lie is looking ut is
real ”
In tlie oilgiual film gold tinting
wus used throughout for gold, gold
teeth, biass hods, gilt frames, aud
cunaij to heighten its terrible
leality This tinting, however, is
absent from the piesent print
which is lent by the Museum of
Modem Art film library
Helzels Donate $57
Piesidcul aud Mrs Ralph D
Hetzcl have matched the WSGA
$57 gift to the studeut welfare
commltttee emergency fund for
gifts und loans to needy students
Alumnus Heads Railroad
Chuiteb E Deuuy 'OO has become
piesident of the Not them Pacific
Raihoad Denny founerly wus
president of the Erie Railroad for
10 yeais
■Kflgito PRICE FIVE CENTS
Installation Of Seats Is Slow;
Work Remains To Be Started
Under Three Recent Contracts
4500 Seats Provided Under One Contract
Are Yet To Be Placed; Buildings Now Have
Heating Facilities To Allow Cold Weather Work
Hope of utilizing the new buildings, next beme.stei was
dimmer today as local GSA headquarteis repoited only slow
progress during the past seveial weeks
Only about 1,000 of the 5,900 seats piovided foi undei
Contract 12 have been installed, officials said, since voik on
the conti act began a month ago Workmen are now put'mg
seats in Liberal Arts and Electrical Engineeimg buildings
while chair holes aie still being drilled in Chemistry and
Physics
Work has not been commenced
on any of the three new contracts,
according to reports These are
Contract 15, for EE switchboards,
Contract 21, for fixed shop equip
ment; and Contract 22, for fixed »
electrical equipment' )
‘-Fire-fighting* -oquipmentr '“under
Contiact 19 is being installed in
Agricultural Science Building,
while the installation of scientific
and laboratory furniture under
Contract 20 should be under way
by next week, GSA authorities
said
Since heating facilities have
been installed m the buildings, cold
weather will not hold up any of the
contracts, officials stated
Three Profs
On ‘Brain Trust’
Three Faculty Men Serve
As Advisers To State
p Three members or the College
facultj aie membeis of a nine
man "hi ain rtust” advising u Joint
state government commission en
gaged in an interim study or leg
islative ptoposals
Tlie facultj members are Dr Ja
cob Tangei, head of the depart
ment of political science, Dr Fred
F. Llninger, professor of agilctil
tural economics, and Dr Paul H
Wuellei, associate professor of
economics
Tlie professois have agreed to
seive without paj in an advisory
uipucitj on state finances, taxes,
lelief, unemployment compensa
tion and otiiei mutters requiring
research
Other members of the advisory
buurd are Di Claieuco A Ktilp.
piofessor of insurance, uud Dr
Stephen B Sweeney. Ids associate
of the Universitj of Pennsylvania,
W Brooke Graves, political science
piofessor, Temple University, D
M Diamond, head of the econom
ics Sociology department, Lehigh
Univeisitj, Dt CharleSjS Tip
petts, dean of the school of busi
ness administration, aud Oi W R
Newsletter, deun of the school of
applied scieuces, University of
Pittsburgh
Arts Division Offers
Paintings To IFC
Twelve facsimiles of American
paintings donated to the College
by the Carnegie Corpoiation of
New* York City will be made avail
able to fraternity groups next
month
Under a plan which will be pro
posed to Interfroternlty Council
next i month the pictures—which
are now showing in the College
Gallery, 303 'Main Engineering—
will be lent to interested fraternity
groups for a semester at a time in
order that they can be kept circu
lating
Artists’ Ticket
Sale Problem Is
Still Unsolved
All Suggestions; Marcjuardf
Cites Factprs Involved
All suggestions foi the sale of
Artists’ Course tickets next veai
will be considered by the Ai lists’
Couise Committee, Dr C«nl E
Marquardt, chairman of the Com
mittee, said yesterday Hovvevei,
no specific method is likelv to b<
decided upon until plans foi neM
veal’s series are complete, he add
ed
Di Marquardt emphasized that
the Committee hus offcied ami is
offering no prize for suggestions
and is unable to say whethoi it
would do so A recent contest was
held by Dr Nelson W Taylor., head
of the department of ceramics, but
was in no way sanctioned by the
Artists’ Course Committee
“A plan to broadcast mimbeis
from the Auditorium to other
buildings is precluded by a clause
m the standard artists’ contracts
which prohibits the broadcasting
of any concert oi the use of anv
transmitting device without the
consent of the contracting artists"
Dt Marquardt pointed out
“The suggestion that a loiter v
be used to ease the conditions of
the sale has been consideied bv
the Committee previously,” Di
Marquardt said “At that time it
was the opinion that the plan
would work a hardship on those
subscribers who prefei to stand in
line and thus be assured of better
seats than might fall their way bv
chance The possibility of disap-
(Continued On Page Four)
Committee Named
To Plan Revision
Of Traffic Rules
A rev ision of campus traffic reg
ulation and control made
sary by the completion of the now
building program has been as
signed to. a committee of 16 faculty
membeis and three students b>
President Ralph D HstzeJ
The three student members of
the committee will be named by
All-College Cabinet Faculty ap
pointments were made by Dr Hel
/el with Dean A. R Warnock and ’
Samuel K Hostetter, as committee
co-chairmen.
Faculty members of the gioup
are Prof. D. C. Duncan, Prof. F
L Bentley, Prof. J. E Koulfuss,
Prof. W. S Dye Jr, Prof E C
Davis, Prof. P. C. Weaver, Prot.
Laura W. .Drummond, Neil M
Fleming, Prof N. W. Taylor, Piof '
G R. Green, Col A. R Emery.
Prof A. E. Neyhart, G. W. Ebeifc!
and Evelyn M. Hensel.